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Arezzo, Tuscany.I hadn't done any (pseudo-)HDR/tonemapping for a while. Based on one RAW, edited in Digital Photo Professional, tonemapping done in Photoshop CS3.
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in her journal [link]
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in her fine journal "My journal is raining" [link]
Submitted to #The-Yard-Collective for November 2009
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When I went to Italy, that was something I wanted. Avoiding the shadows of Leonardo and Michelangelo (as much as I love them), and skipping all the monument shots that everybody else takes, but to take Street shots, that is the people and the way they live. But often you get the beautiful surroundings anyway in Italy, and that's very satisfying.
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I'm so jealous of you! I really want to go there. I'm doing a semester abroad next year. I'm stuck between Italy and France, I can't make up my mind!
But seeing you take pictures like this one, and all your others, makes me what to go to Italy more and more. You have a great style, I really love your work!
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I know France better than Italy, I've been there often, and I'm still not finished with it. But Italy is special somehow, very inspiring and incredibly rich in art. A choice would depend on what you think important for your future life and some other things. My experience that both French and Italian people can be nice, but in France it depends a lot on whether you know the language, while Italians are more relaxed about that. Even if they don't know any language but Italian, they're used to people not speaking the language, and Italian is easier to learn than French. But whether you choose one or the other, it's important to visit there with a promise to yourself that you'll come back to it after you've left again. It's important to enjoy things, and not to get obsessed with ticking things of a list. All these things are there for you to see and enjoy, and you are not there for the things.
Thank you for your nice words!
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You're welcome! <3
Thanks for your advice too. That really helps me out. I really have to do more research about both countries, now that you've got me thinking. I just hope I can get into the program. Whichever country I pick, I would like to try and learn a little of the language.
And you're right, it's definitely more than checking something off of a list. This is sort of a once-in-a-life-time-thing for me, lol. It'll be the first time I'll be alone while traveling. I'm excited and nervous about it!
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Thank you, Michele!
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Interesting, candid shot. You've catched moody, rainy atmosphere.
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Thank you, it's a happy memory for me.
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Thanks, it's nice that people look for the architecture too.
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Thank you again, Ersi!
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talk about bad weather that you would need three umbrella's 
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Yeah, it was pretty bad, I'm glad I didn't ruin my camera.
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I just adore this piece! May I please use this in one of my novels if I give you full credit, and a copy of the book? Please, it means SO much to me!!
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Hello Ravyn,
I've thought very long about this, and I appreciate very much that you're so decent to ask, but I have to say no. I consider this one of my best pictures so I don't want to give it away and see it end up who knows where without me earning some money for my hard work - just like you don't give your "Bye Bye Blackbird" away.
Of course, if you write your novel and just show it to a few friends and relations in private with my picture in it, I can't stop that and that's fine with me. However, if you post it on the web, give it away to for everyone who asks or try to sell it with my picture in it, you're in trouble.
If it's any consolation - if you're novel isn't good, adding my picture to it won't help it. And if your book is good, it certainly won't need it. Any good writer should be able to write something about a boy and a girl standing in the rain under a balcony, and have people sit on the edge of the chair when reading it, without any extra pictures. That's the art of writing.
Actually, I think the blackbird picture is pretty good, so I'd use that for your novel - a clever writer can twist the story a bit so there's a blackbird in it somewhere. It might even give you new ideas for the story. I hope you earn some good money with it some day.
Regards,
Eric
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I understand, dearest. Thanks Anyways , Lovee!
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Thanks again, Lucas!
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Thanks, Liz! Shot with risk for own life and camera... Those stone slabs suddenly became very slippery because of the rain.
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I am a dingbat, I just popped by to catch up on what I've missed in your gallery... I realized I never hit the fav button on this
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Not a Windows Dingbat I hope!
No fave?! 
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I remembered to fav it this time round
It surprises me how often I do that 
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It happens to me too sometimes, and I've noticed that sometimes I click on the button and just nothing happens.
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Thanks again, Magda!
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Thanks very much again for the feature, Natasa!
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Ah, great: Congrats on the Yard's Friday Night Specials - feature [link]
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Ah, thank you! 
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LOL - dank je wel!
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Featured as Friday night special: [link]
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Thanks again, StamatisGR! 
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Thanks very much, Tom!
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A wonderful photo!
Color is eye candy. B&W shows the the essence.
Try this for B&W conversion:
A technique created by Greg Gormanβs photo retoucher, Rob Carr. It's simply this (quote):
Open an image in Photoshop, and convert it to 16-bit if you can afford the disk and memory space.
Convert the image to LAB color, using Image Β» Mode Β» Lab.
In the Channel palette, select the Lightness channel, then convert the image to grayscale using Image Β» Mode Β» Grayscale.
Cmd+Click (MacOS) or Ctrl+Click (Windows) the thumbnail in the Channels palette to load a selection, then choose Inverse from the Select menu.
With the selection still active, convert the image to RGB color, using Image Β» Mode Β» RGB.
With the selection still active, create a Solid Color Adjustment layer, and fill it with whatever color you wish, preferably a rich, dark color. Adjust the opacity of the Solid Color adjustment layer and add a Levels or Curves adjustment layer to bump the contrast as needed. Tweak the color of the Solid Color adjustment layer to control various sepia tone looks.
This technique produces wonderfully rich black and white photos.
Found on the site:
[link]
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Thank you very much Victor, much appreciated! I've made a note of this and I will certainly try this out!
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I was all ready to call them wimps, when I saw how wet their pants appear to be. The rain must have really come down, although it isn't a player in this photo. Are those little raindrop bubbles in the foreground?
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